Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Honor
Marcus Tullius Cicero, George Barnes, Edward Jones (1860). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators”, p.349
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
"On the Commonwealth". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 54-51 BC.
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
"In Verrem", II. 1. 16, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 372-75,